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repeated on a sealed envelope containing the writer's name. The 

 length of the essay is not to exceed 12,000 words. 



7. The decision as to the best essay rests with the Council, 

 provided that no member of the Council, who is himself a candidate 

 do join in the voting ; but, in lieu of itself deciding, the Council 

 may appoint one or more judges. 



8. The name of the successful candidate will be announced at 

 the Annual Summer Meeting following that at which the Com- 

 petition and its subject were first announced; and the Prize will 

 then be handed to the successful competitor by the Chairman of the 

 meeting. 



9. The copyright in the successful essay is to belong to the 

 Society of the Victoria Institute, who may publish it as they shall 

 think fit or otherwise make use of it ; but, at the request of the 

 Author, they may allow him to embody it in any more com- 

 prehensive work that he may afterwards compose. 



10. A copy of these Rules will be sent to all Candidates, who will 

 be assumed to have assented to them by the sending in of an essay 

 for competition. 



The subject of the essay this year is : — 



" THE BEARING OF ARCH^OLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL 

 RESEARCH UPON THE NEW TESTAMENT." 



iVb/g.— The design of the paper is to summarize and apply the 

 fruits of investigation and discovery, both monumental and 

 historical, so far as they bear upon the central truths of the New 

 Testament. The question of the Canon of the New Testament is 

 intended to be excluded from consideration. 



By order of the Council, 



FEEDERIC S. BISHOP, 



Secretary. 



1, Adelphi Terrace House, 

 Charing Cross, W.C. 

 26//i June, 

 Annual Summer Meeting, 1911. 



